[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] FFI and current images/VMs

Fabio Niephaus lists at fniephaus.com
Thu Apr 20 19:01:26 UTC 2017


Hi Chris,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:57 PM Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Over the last week, I've been trying to build a new image on the latest
> trunk, which for my purposes needs to include ODBC, and until just
> recently, I've been failing.
>
> After rooting around a bit, I finally found that the base trunk image I
> was using (from this location: http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/ ) seems
> to all be based off of this VM:
> [image: image.png]
>  My previous image that I was porting from is:
> [image: image.png]
> which worked fine calling out FFI/ODBC.
> After trying many changes (looking at 64 bit image, 32 bit image, other
> fumbling around), I finally tracked down a current VM from
> https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files
> This version:
> [image: image.png]
> seems to work just fine with FFI (at leat, it runs the ODBC code without a
> hitch).  Even in the 64 bit version.
>
> I've sent this message for a few reasons:
> 1 - for my future self, to remember where the link is for the most current
> VM's (I can't find a link to it elsewhere outside of the email archives)
>

I've added the link to the vm section at: http://squeak.org/downloads/


> 2 - for anyone else having FFI issues
> 3 - as a subtle request to eventually update the stable, blessed version
> of the VMs that are used in the bleeding edge Image archives, so that they
> work better with less hassle.
>

I'm afraid we still don't have a good release process in place.
However, I'm happy to update the vm used for the Squeak trunk bundles with
a current bleeding edge vm if no one objects.

Best,
Fabio


>
> Thanks,
> cbc
>
>
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